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Azza Al-Bittar, 42, lives together with her husband and her son in Homs, where the war began in 2011. She tells us, “My faith was born and grew in a wounded country. I lived through the civil war, with all its devastation and instability. Then the pandemic struck, raising a great question mark over our life and death. And in 2023, as though we had not already suffered enough, the earthquake shook the ground beneath our feet.” But then she ...

In the year 2000, the then-Bishop of Mukatshevo invited the Franciscan Capuchins to come to Uzhhorod, Ukraine to assume the pastoral ministry in a post-Soviet township with some 15,000 inhabitants. There was no shortage of problems – unemployment, broken families, young people without future prospects, and a high crime rate. The Capuchin Fathers rolled up their sleeves and set to work. Currently, there are three Capuchin Fathers of the Eastern rite, who live in the center that was funded for ...